Reply to can you strip controls from a pcb board?

my novation remote sl 25 suffered a little damage recently, 2 knobs are now loose and wobbling, I want to take the board out of the unit and remove all physical controls from the board directly and replace them with wired connections that lead away from the board.

I want to detach the faders buttons and pots from the board and then attach wires to their connections and attach a new higher quality controls at the end of the wires and build a new box.

I was believeing about doing a custom midi build but I would rather strip the controls from the remote sl board and build the board into a new box with better hardware so I can have a custom controller with automap and a solid midi assignment software editor.

I saw one guy a while back that had taken fader #8 on a remote zero sl and turned it sideways to make it a crossfader so I'm pretty sure I can pull this off.

the remote sl 25 board gives you a lot of controls.

8 faders
8 pots
2 "X" parameters
2 "Y" parameters
1 pitch bend
1 mod wheel
8 endless rotary encoders
38 buttons
8 drum pads

*the x/y pad can have 2 cc# assignments per direction under midi hardware mode that can be separated internally (I opened it up and checked) - only 1 control is available per direction under automap*

*Toatal of 22 pot/fader/linear capable inputs

*Total of 38 Button inputs

*Total of 8 Drum pad inputs

thats 68 total potential controls.

the remote SL board supports 7 and 14 bit midi as well as MMC messages and note on/off on buttons.

it can also assign step increments/sizes to buttons (0>8>16>24>32>etc...) - a lot of controllers and boards lack this ability.

I just believe that if I can build my own box around this board I can have the best of both worlds. My own custom box of high quality components and the native integration of the remote SL's and automap to go with it.

has anyone ever stripped a board completely and re-built from it?